Zoë Rom

Zoë Rom is a journalist and podcast host based in Carbondale, Colorado.

She co-hosts Your Diet Sucks, an independent podcast with Kylee Van Horn that brings an evidence-based lens to diet culture in endurance sports. The show interrogates wellness pseudoscience, restrictive eating, and the intersections of food, body, and performance in fitness and wellness culture.

Her journalism focuses on public lands and the environment, particularly federal land policy and conservation in the American West. She has reported for High Country News, Inside Climate News, and the New York Times, and serves on the board of Runners for Public Lands.

She also co-hosts The Trailhead with Brendan Leonard, a running podcast that’s not about running. She is co-author, with Tina Muir, of Becoming a Sustainable Runner.

A competitive ultramarathoner racing primarily 100-mile distances with a 2nd place finish at the Leadville 100 (2024), she also does stand-up and performs with the improv group Consensual Improv in the Roaring Fork Valley.